Armored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We will be featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently released by...
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Armored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We will be featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently released by...
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Tons of New Books In the Wow Cool Shop
We have added hundred of new books to our online and Cupertino stores. Here’s just a recent selection. Wow Cool has been doing a massive re-cataloging of our inventory — new and re-stocked items are being added every day. New books arrive...
Read moreArmored Baby Flppn Chnnlz Takeover 1
Armored Baby is the home for the art of Mark Sunshine from Riot God. We will be featuring a recent animation of his every day this week. The work is available via various channels. Instagram is the most active and accessible. Recently released by...
Read moreSunday Cage Liner
It has been an interesting weekend full of literary, cartoon and musical mysteries. Your recommended soundtrack is this collection of instrumental tracks from the Lick My Decals Off recording sessions by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band...
Read moreUpcoming Events!
Hey friends! Sparkplug is attending a couple of our favorite events in the upcoming months! Linework is in our hometown of Portland, Oregon, and will take place May 21 and 22 at Norse Hall. AND it’s free to attend! CAKE is in Chicago, and...
Read moreUpcoming Important Dates
Hello again friends! I hope you are having a good spring. I wanted to let you know a couple upcoming dates for Sparkplug. May 17th – This is the last day to place any online orders, including wholesale orders. Marc Arsenault is picking...
Read moreWhit Taylor on Slate’s Cartoonist Studio Prize Shortlist!
Whit Taylor, author of Sparkplug Mini The Anthropologists, has been nominated for the Slate Book Review‘s fourth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Webcomic of 2015 for The Fabric of Appropriation! See the rest of the list and read...
Read moreJack Kirby | Thor | Parallax View
A series of frames from the Parallax Corporation training montage from the 1974 Alan J. Pakula film The Parallax View. “The montage also uses a drawing by Jack Kirby of the Marvel Comics character Thor. The drawing is a cropped image from...
Read moreA Wretch Like Me reviewed by Lambda Literary!
Lambda Literary published this great review of Ebin Lee’s A Wretch Like Me.
Read moreSparkplug in the news!
Suzette Smith gave us a shout out in her Portland Mercury article about Vision Quest #4, a free paper that features a comic by former Sparkplug publisher Emily Nilsson. And Comic Book Resources did a spotlight on Whit Taylor, author of The...
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